Deb Douglas
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first heard Sep 2018
last heard Sep 2018
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Finally occurred to me that we can't just tell our children they are gifted.
They probably already know they're different from other kids.
But we need to help them understand what that giftedness means, all the pros and cons.
It needs to be a long conversation.
And instead the message kids were getting, oh, you're identified, you're in a gifted program.
Okay, that just simply means you're smarter than everybody else and you ought to be getting A's.
That's not the message we want to give.
Oh, gladly.
I began my educational career quite a long time ago as a high school English and speech teacher and then I was a stay at home mom and then because of my background in language arts was asked to come back and do some pull out programming in the gifted program in the school district we were in in Wisconsin.
And I loved doing j junior grade books discussions with gifted elementary kids.
It was so exciting.
But I began to realize that this pull out program was was very nice, but it wasn't really addressing all kids' needs.
And so I was trying to figure out what would be a better way of approaching gifted education.
Went back to school to get a master's in curriculum and instruction for gifted children.
And during that time was hired as the full-time first resource teacher and then gifted education coordinator in that same school district of about five thousand, six thousand students.
And then I spent about twenty years in that program coordinating that program.
program and really built it into what I felt was
a well organized, um, research based, continuous, systematic way of providing for the needs of the gifted kids in the district.
But there still seemed to be something kind of missing and and um I realized we needed to help focus on the social emotional needs of our kids as well.
And as part of that I began in my conversations with students saying, What is it that you need?
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